Jack Tighe
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John Thomas Tighe (Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) was an American minor league baseball player and a coach, manager and scout for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball.
Biography
Born in Kearny, New Jersey, Tighe joined the professional ranks in 1936 as a catcher with the Charleston Senators,[1] a Detroit farm club in the Class C Middle Atlantic League. A right-handed batter listed as Script error: No such module "convert". tall and Script error: No such module "convert"., he rose no further as a player than Class A-1 (now Double-A), two levels below the major leagues, with the Beaumont Exporters of the Texas League in 1938–39.
The following season, Tighe became a manager in the minor leagues.
In 1940 and 1941, Tighe was player-manager of the Muskegon Clippers, a Michigan State League Tigers farm club.[1]
He was a Detroit coach for the latter half of the 1942 American League season, then resumed his minor league managerial career from 1944 to 1953.[2]
In 1948, Tighe was assigned to be the first manager of the Flint Arrows in the Central League.[3]
He was again named to the coaching staff of the Tigers for 1955–56, replacing his boss, Bucky Harris, as Detroit's manager following the 1956 season. Tighe led the Tigers to a 78–76, fourth-place finish in 1957, although when Detroit faltered (21–28) early on during the 1958 campaign, he was released in favor of Bill Norman.[1] Tighe's career managing record: 99 wins, 104 defeats (.488).
He later managed and scouted in the Milwaukee Braves organization before returning to the Tigers' farm system, winning the 1967 Governors' Cup championship[4] and the 1968 International League regular season championship at the helm of the Toledo Mud Hens.[1] He served full-time with the Detroit Tigers system until 1982 then under various capacities until 1990.[1]
Jack Tighe died at age 88 on Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., eight days short of his 89th birthday, in Pompano Beach, Florida.[1]
Managerial record
| Team | Year | Regular season | Postseason | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Won | Lost | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | ||
| DET | 1957 | 154 | Template:WinLossPct | 4th in AL | – | – | – | |||
| DET | 1958 | 49 | Template:WinLossPct | 8th in AL Fired June 9 |
– | – | – | |||
| Total | 203 | Template:WinLossPct | Template:WinLossPct | |||||||
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